They were “The first medical educational institution funded independently with the nation’s resources” [2] The KUMC was originally Kyoung-sung Women's Medical College which opened on May 5, 1938, and was renamed multiple times until March 1, 1976, when it was renamed as the hospital affiliated with Korea University.

July 20, 2010, it was awarded the Grand Prize of the Korea Health Industry.

[3] In 2009 the hospital was awarded the president's prize in the National Quality Management Competition.

[4] “a 55-year-old male with liver cancer at the Korea University Medical Center Anam Hospital was the first patient in Korea to receive treatment on the Halcyon™ system” [5] There was a study done “to evaluate the postoperative and survival outcomes of robotic-assisted colorectal cancer surgery in elderly patients”(Cuellar-Gomez et al., 2022), and the data used was with that “of all patients ≥75 years who underwent a robotic-assisted curative resection in Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, between January 2007 and January 2021” [6] Other historical Achievements In 1976 Discovery of the Hantavirus and developed the vaccine in 1988[7] In 1999 Development and transplantation of artificial hearts customized for Korea [8] In 2009 Successful domestic production of the swine flu vaccine [9] In 2016 First medical college in Korea to satisfy the WFME evaluation standard [10] Korea University College of Medicine started off as Kyungsung Women's Medical College in 1938 and was renamed to its now name in 1971.

Korea University College of Health Science is made up of the Schools of Biomedical Engineering, Biosystem and Biomedical Science, Health and Environmental Science, and Health Policy and Management [12] Graduate School of Clinical Dentistry College of Nursing